Next Forza Motorsport
As good as Gran Turismo 7 has looked, there’s no denying that the next Forza Motorsport will provide some competition in the ray tracing department. Thus far, Turn 10 Studios has only showcased footage captured in-engine but the use of ray traced reflections, from floors reflecting character models and vehicles to cars reflecting the surrounding environment, is very apparent. According to creative director Chris Esaki in July 2020’s Forza Monthly, ray tracing also helped expose “some of the issues that we had in how we were either building the content or rendering the content.” As a result, there will be a “whole host of other technology around how we’re improving the car models, how we’re improving the track visuals, environment visuals and character visuals, just to make everything beautiful and really pop in the scene.” Again, we may have to wait some time for extensive gameplay footage but the teases thus far look promising.
